The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-06-09
TADvERTIsENEST.l
BOREING.
Struck Oil in the Surplus
And Grease in the Holmes
County Rock.
The Consul to Cork Constructs
This Artistic Advertisement.
NEW LEXINGTON, O., May IS, 1887.

NEW LEXINGTON, o., May IS, 1887.
ED. SENTINEL My letter of
last week l presumed would f lily
explain TO the coruscant editor OF
the Hooking Encyclopedia, why
our Commissioners used Holmes
county stone for The Court house;
but he seems 10 be as ilnpervious
to a philosophical proposition as
the back Of a crocodile is TO the
wooden arrows of an Indian
He, however, reluctantly admits
that Holmes county makes spot
on the Map of the World, as
well as furnishes Democratic
majorities, and seems to be some
what of a cosmographer. which
relieves me from the greater part
of the labor 1 was by his first
questions called upon TO explain.
His Lewisness is dissatisfied with
my philosophical demonstration
of his plain problem. No sophis-
try will go down the well trained
metal throat OF the indomitable
Haw-eater.
He wants no jumping the fur
row, or "kuttin' and kiverin'," as
it were. No veneering of the
great principles of truth, which
is the principal component part
of The average Loganite. In short,
he demands "faX' and such "fax"
as will fully demonstrate that the
surplus has gone where it will
do the most good, and with an
interrogation point as long as the
cockade of a Washington negro
valet, lie asks, why did you go 10
Holmes county, thousand miles
away, for your stones and what
has become of the "surplus 3"
In the language of our own
Tommy Blair, II answer his
question by asking him another
one'; Have you read the Inter
state Commerce Bill? Do you
know the advantages of a "long
haul" over a short ones
If you can answer both Of these
questions in the affirmative, any
from US as TO the
distance, will simply be super
erogation to the already well
stored mind Of the blue eyed ed
itor of the Sentinel.
You see The surplus" from the
nature Of things was
bound TO be "short haul' and
we were determined TO take ad-
of the "long haul" and
the railroads 10 carry our
stone as far as we could for the
and thus get even with
these monopolies for cancelins
the "free passes" of our farmers,
mechanics and laborers who are
building this grand temple Of
Justice.
Do you see the point we make
on the Railroads! GAINESVILLE got
her Courthouse stone, that is for
The superstructure, from near
Dayton Newark went 10 the
northern part Of the State, but
Lancaster. to patronize home
luarries Of the Fairfield, Hock-
ng and Perry grades, bailt her
Yellow fort, resembling a well
laubed brick kiln before burn
ng, and called a Courthouse,
,ut of native stone, at a cost OF
;350,000 and no surplus" Del
'e see the pint?
Deliver US from native stone
uch as our sister county, Fair
ield, used, both in color and cost
mess. Of couse. l cannot tell
vhat it would cost TO build from
stone, as no man has
'et seen one of them used for any
ther purpose than corner stone
or worm fences and pillars for
alluon frame houses.
If the citizens of that rugged
ounty wouTd raise little "sur-
lus" through taxation and erect
ome kind of a public building
/ order TO develop her quarries
f native stone, perhaps her sis
sr counties would go there for
material, but from ap-
earances her stone is liable to
e in natures undisturbed bosom
,r years TO come,
When the good Lord was fin
hing up Perry county, He salted
with coal, clay, glass, sand,
ut, soil, timber, lime, and while
[e was still blessing Perry, lis
eople called on the Lord and
id they did not want the earth, :
lat their dear little sister Ii ock-
e, might have Perry's share of
,ck and pine, mountains and
atural gas, and thus through the
uniiicence of Perry's mound
Hooking has been bless
|. Here Perry, through her
owe, madly threw her building
one away. Reward after re-
ard was offered for good native /
stone Of uniform color /
le country was bored and blast }
for miles around in the hopes /
lat The kind Of stone could be
und in sufficient quantity in
lr county, but it did not mate |
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